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Abstract
This article examines the subject of the transition from education to the labour market among young people moving directly from education in Poland to first jobs abroad. With free labour mobility in the European Union (EU), there are now more options for transitions into adulthood, including working abroad. This study uses mainly qualitative empirical material with some contextual quantitative data to examine the characteristics of young people who opted for a first job abroad, how they made their transitions from education to the foreign labour market, and the impact of their first jobs abroad on their subsequent occupational paths after returning home.
Notes
1 For ethno-survey methodology see Massey (Citation1987, Citation1993), Massey et al. (Citation2008).
2 For more discussion, see Kaczmarczyk (Citation2011).
3 See also Botterill (Citation2011).
4 ’Introduction—Students 2009/10’, HESA, available at: https://www.hesa.ac.uk./data-and-analysis/publications/students-2009-10/introduction, accessed 7 September 2016.
5 Author’s interview with Pola, Warsaw, 11 March 2011.
6 Author’s interview with Pola, Warsaw, 11 March 2011.
7 Author’s interview with Pola, Warsaw, 11 March 2011.
8 Author’s interview with Pola, Warsaw, 11 March 2011.
9 Interview with Maria, Warsaw, 20 April 2011.
10 Interview with Maria, Warsaw, 20 April 2011.
11 Interview with Maria, Warsaw, 20 April 2011.
12 Interview with Lucjan, Cracow, 10 January 2011.
13 Interview with Lucjan, Cracow, 10 January 2011.
14 Interview with Lucjan, Cracow, 10 January 2011.
15 Interview with Lucjan, Cracow, 10 January 2011.
16 Interview with Lucjan, Cracow, 10 January 2011.
17 Interview with Daria, Radom, 15 April 2011.
18 Interview with Daria, Radom, 15 April 2011.